Re: What the hell is jason?

He was born out of child abuse via neglect by camp councillors as a result of his psychical deformity - turned into a supernatural , indestructible bogeyman driven by the very human emotion of vengeance.

Therefore, like many real and cinematic monsters he was, to a degree, born from his environment.

Re: What the hell is jason?

No, not a zombie at all IMO. But then I'm a purist and have a very narrow definition of what constitutes a zombie: Namely, a person who has died, come back as a walking cadaver and eats human flesh.

As far as Jason goes, he's a hydrocephalic, learning-disabled psychopathic hillbilly with an incredibly high threshold for pain who dies and is brought back to life with a Frankenstienian dose of electricity with all his pre-death mental faculties in place, only in a rotted -- though not continuously rotting -- body.

Re: What the hell is jason?

Then you have the 28 Days/Weeks Later crowd, but I wouldn't call them zombies.

For me, to be considered a zombie, it has to meet two basic requirements:

1. The person has died and then returned to life as an animated corpse, and...

2. Upon reanimation, they feast on human flesh.

Sometimes they retain their human intelligence upon re-animation (Return of the Living Dead) and sometimes they don't (the classic Romero zombie).

The 28 Days Later infected (as well as those in The Crazies 2010) don't qualify. They're living human beings who are infected with a virus which erases rationality and comprehensive intelligence and leaves them raging, homicidal maniacs. There is no death and re-animation involved, nor the feeding on of human flesh.

Undeads are merely re-animated corpses, no flesh-eating involved. Sometimes they retain their intelligence (vampires, which, while they do drink blood, do so only to sustain their strength, not because of some compulsive, instinctive drive) and sometimes they don't (the test subjects in Re-Animator).

Re: What the hell is jason?

Then you have the 28 Days/Weeks Later crowd, but I wouldn't call them zombies.

For me, to be considered a zombie, it has to meet two basic requirements:

1. The person has died and then returned to life as an animated corpse, and...

2. Upon reanimation, they feast on human flesh.

Sometimes they retain their human intelligence upon re-animation (Return of the Living Dead) and sometimes they don't (the classic Romero zombie).

The 28 Days Later infected (as well as those in The Crazies 2010) don't qualify. They're living human beings who are infected with a virus which erases rationality and comprehensive intelligence and leaves them raging, homicidal maniacs. There is no death and re-animation involved, nor the feeding on of human flesh.

Undeads are merely re-animated corpses, no flesh-eating involved. Sometimes they retain their intelligence (vampires, which, while they do drink blood, do so only to sustain their strength, not because of some compulsive, instinctive drive) and sometimes they don't (the test subjects in Re-Animator).

Re: What the hell is jason?

Vas -- that was before Romero redefined the term and rewrote the rulebook.

Punk -- ''ghoul'' is just a generic, umbrella term and can refer to any number of monster, creature, spectre, demon, etc.

Incidentally, this entire post was typed using my Xbox's virtual keboard, meaning I had to use my controller to enter every letter. Takes forever but my visiting mother has fallen asleep at my computer and I don't have the heart to wake her up and kick her off.

Re: What the hell is jason?

Vampires are a breed of undead, and their particular breed, in much the same way as a human being needs food, must drink blood to survive.

Zombies, however, don't need to feed to survive; as only the primordial, core portion of their brains are re-animated, and as that portion contains the most basic of human instincts, they feed because they're instinctively compelled to, not because they must.